Vacation law 1938
The 1938 vacation law entered into force on 1 July 1938 and made paid vacation a statutory part of Swedish working life. Later parliamentary material describes the original minimum as two weeks for covered year-round workers, while SCB connects the reform to Sweden's growing leisure geography.
The vacation law entered into force on 1 July 1938. Riksdag protocol gives the legal date, and later parliamentary material describes the original reform as a two-week paid-vacation minimum for covered year-round workers.
This was labour policy, but also cultural history. SCB links the 1938 two-week vacation reform to the growth of leisure-house and sport-cottage landscapes in the decades around the reform.
The page remains careful about coverage. The next pass needs the exact statute text and social-history sources on excluded groups and actual early usage.